Specialized accrediting bodies stand at the forefront of the assessment movement and exert important influences on program and institutional assessment and improvement. The academic programs these bodies approve are frequently among the first on a campus to consider ways to assess student competence. This book presents case studies that describe how faculty in eight professionally oriented disciplines have developed and practiced assessment on their campuses and the lessons these faculty offer to colleagues in their own and other disciplines.

Edited by Catherine A. Palomba; and Trudy W. Banta

ISBN: 1-57922-034-7, 2001, 320 pages, hardbound